Clothes stick



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' TTTTTT EY Patented Nov. 10, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PAUL H. LACEY, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO PAUL F. DRESHER,01

I08 AN GELES,

CALIFORNIA CLOTHES STICK Application filed March 4,

The object of this invention is the provision of a stick that willpermit a laundress picking up and feeding washed clothes into a wringcrwithout placing her hands in the hot water or have her hands directlycontact with clothes.

A further object is the provision of a clothes feeder stick that has onits outer or active end a socket formed with an arched neck that mergesinto a ball head, the outer face of the head and the inner face of theneck being provided with teeth or-serrations to effectively engage withthe clothes when the head and neck are brought against such clothes sothat the clothes can easily and positively be engaged Without liabilityof injury thereto, and fed between the rollers of a Wringer, the ballhead preventing the stick being caught in the Wringer.

The invention will be set forth in detail in the following descriptionand illustrated by the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings: I

Figure l is a side elevation of the improvement.

Figure 2 is a similar view with the improvement in section.

Figure 3 is a face view thereof.

The stick is indicated by the numeral 1, the same having arranged aroundits outer end a rubber or like compressible and nonpervious tube 2. Thehandle 2 permits of the stick being readily grasped and easilymanipulated.

The outer end of the stick is received in a. metal socket 3 and issecured thereto by means 4. The socket has an outer arched neck portion5 Whose end merges into a ball head 6. Both the neck and head arepreferably solid and the inner face of the head as well as the inner orarched portion of the neck are formed with transverse substantiallyV-shaped grooves 8 defining therebetween ribs 9. The edges of the ribsare not sharpened nor pointed and, therefore, cannot inflict injurytothe clothes contacted thereby.

With a stick provided with a ball head and the arched neck connectingthe head with the socket, steaming clothes may be readily gripped,elevated and directed between the form ribs,

1931. Serial No. 520,137.

rollers of the wringer Without necessitating the hands of the laundressbeing brought into contact with the heated clothes. The ball head is ofa size to prevent the same entering between the rollers of the wringerand the simplicity of the construcof the neck being grooved transverselyto provid ribs between said grooves.

2. A' clothes stick having an arched neck portion extending from one endthereof and. merges into a ball head andthe' which neck inner face ofthe head and the concaved face of the neck being grooved transversely tobeing non-pointed and non-sharpened.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

PAUL H. LAGEY. V

the outer active edges of the ribs

